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originally posted by: Esoterotica
Ive come to really like the idea of reincarnation, because in that sense every unique soul is experiencing every generation of humanity, from one standpoint or another.
Though, it's hard to align that with the immense population explosion over the past 2000 years, unless humans have been around 100,000+ years as some of the CTs claim.
Another idea I like is that you are born as a unique individual on some other planet in some other Galaxy in this immense universe of ours.
Can't say I care too much what happens, only that it can't be worse than this materialistic hellhole we currently exist in.
originally posted by: Esoterotica
a reply to: ExNihiloRed
You could also contend that humans are reborn as non humans. All animals seem to have unique souls & personalities in my experience. What if every insect is the same way? The sheer amount of potential unique individual life is mind boggling.
I accept the nothingness void as a viable option as well. Still better than this reality imo.
originally posted by: Bleeeeep
a reply to: ExNihiloRed
God is everlasting.
The soul is your consciousness - it is your psyche which is made up of all of the concepts you have about the spirit(s). Like the blue and black dress: before you conceived of it being blue and black, all you saw was white and gold. It takes conception to create awareness, as your awareness is your conception of the spirit -- it is your spiritual awareness -- your spiritual conception.
Combine what you think of as forces, or fields, with that of will, and that is what a spirit is. It is will.
Physicality, or our bodies, are what we have measured of our will. Your image/body is literally the image of your forefathers conception of their spirit. It is the image of our desires, as we have measured them - the image of our measurements of our will - exactly like how these words are the image of my awareness of my desire to tell you about reality. The image of my conception of my spirit.
The end game is easy to see: God is making children for himself. He is/has/will make spiritual conception, as he is life and that is what life does: it spiritually conceives good / it is good spiritual conception.
Bad spiritual conception dies/loses awareness/sleeps -- only good spiritual conception is reproduced.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
From a Christian perspective God created humanity for relationship, sin broke that relationship
God has worked to restore that relationship through Christ so we can in the future have that relationship again
Nothing very tricky about it at all.
What that future relationship entails is anyone's guess
This brings me to the purpose of this post. What is the "end game"?
The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it